Re:Nostr: A Decentralized Messaging Protocol
by unboxingelf on Friday September 01, 2023 @08:59PM
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You are implying there is a singular network. There are a collection of relays on the internet. Each relay has it’s own business rules and may or may not accept your events. Each client may support some type of events.
Explain to me how you trivially saturate this protocol. That’s like saying you can trivially saturate TCP/IP by broadcasting packets.
Re:Nostr: A Decentralized Messaging Protocol
by troupo on Saturday September 02, 2023 @02:29AM
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> Each relay has it’s own business rules and may or may not accept your events. Each client may support some type of events.
Even if they don't accept your events, you can still trivially saturate their bandwidth and processing.
> Explain to me how you trivially saturate this protocol.
Explain to me why you keep pretending I said anything about saturating the protocol
> That’s like saying you can trivially saturate TCP/IP by broadcasting packets.
And yet DDOS exists. Things like TCP tuning to avoid network congestion exist.
Here's what I said, verbatim: "then you can trivially saturate the network, the clients, and the relays with bogus events."
What are you arguing against?